Rights watch should not act on hearsay

My request goes to the International Human Rights Watch (HRW) not to always take hearsay as the absolute truth.

Monday, September 10, 2007

My request goes to the International Human Rights Watch (HRW) not to always take hearsay as the absolute truth.

It is disgraceful for HRW, which every person expects to have convincing facts on whatever it conveys, being seen to communicate information that has no credible sources.

Rwigara’s news as earlier reported by HRW that he was missing and police knew where he was, was totally misleading in as far as the fight for human civil liberties was concerned.

I do not think HRW had conducted enough and deep investigation into his whereabouts, before it declared that the man was no where to be seen.

If HRW claims that such investigation were conducted, then those who carried it out went astray and should be penalised for misleading the world.

What they described as Rwigara’s missing was based on hearsay, without facts since the man later decided to turn himself in to the authorities that were looking for him.

This means that the HRW’s probe team did not clearly realise why the man was being hunted by the police.

Nyarugenge-Kigali